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Physical Review A

Manipulating spinor condensates with magnetic fields: Stochastization, metastability, and dynamical spin localization

Han Pu, S. Raghavan, N. P. Bigelow

Published Jan 10, 2000• 47 citations
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Abstract

We study the dynamical response of a spinor Bose condensate under the influence of external magnetic fields. A rich set of phenomena are investigated such as stochastization in population evolution, metastability in spin composition, and dynamical localization in spin space.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.61.023602

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